Re: Bug#2263: rsh fails to return all output

["Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Package: netstd
> Version: 1.25-1
> 
> rshd closes the socket in a way that means that pending output gets
> lost.  This effect is only noticeable when the network is being slow.
> It's possible that this is a kernel bug.

I think it's probably the well-known "write feature". Linux programs
have to check if the write call (on a socket) succeeded. I just fixed
something similar for the new ftpd-6.00 and Mark fixed something like
that for the rdist package (if I remember correctly).


Thanks,

Peter

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